| Art Bell Partner The Partnering Group Art is a Partner with The Partnering Group, working across TPG’s Manufacturer Consulting and Marketing practices. Art brings more than 15 years of experience in consulting and manufacturer sales & marketing. Art’s expertise includes pricing strategy, trade optimization, category management, tool creation, organizational development, and customer & market analytics.
Over the last two years with The Partnering Group, Art has worked on trade spend optimization projects for both retail and away from home operations. Art also has developed joint business plans for both a foodservice manufacturer (broadline distributor customer) and a building products manufacturer (retail customer focused on building contractors).
Prior to joining TPG, Art led the development of the strategic pricing function within the foodservice organization of Sara Lee. During this role, Art spearheaded the development of a formal value-pricing framework, re-designed the price setting processes, implemented a regional pricing strategy, and helped establish pricing governance across global Sara Lee. Art was responsible for the development of a standardized process to manage responses to formal Request for Proposals (RFP). | |
| Jack Li Managing Director Datassential Jack Li spearheads Datassential's custom insights and new products initiatives. Over the past decade, Jack has helped launch a number of foodservice research platforms including:
Jack has led hundreds of research studies for foodservice manufacturers and distributors across a broad array of topics. Jack holds an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, and is a 2003 recipient of the IFMA Sparkplug award. | |
| Jeff Schroeder Partner The Partnering Group Jeff is a partner in The Partnering Group consulting and training with both manufacturers and retailers. Jeff has experience and provides leading edge consulting on Customer Management, Marketing and Sales Training and Best Practice “Go to Market” Processes, Tools and Analytics. Jeff has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience in consumer packaged goods and financial services. He worked for over nine years at Procter & Gamble Co., in numerous high-level sales and management roles. | |
| Warren Solochek Vice President, Client Development The NPD Group, Foodservice Warren Solochek has worked in the food industry for almost 35 years. Warren joined NPD’s Foodservice group in 2003. His responsibilities include overseeing relationships with all existing CREST® clients, both operators and manufacturers. His role at NPD gives him a great deal of insight into today’s Foodservice industry issues and trends, and helps him anticipate the issues the industry will face in the future. | |
| Roger Toomey President & CEO UniPro Roger Toomey has been the President and CEO of UniPro Foodservice since October of 2000. Toomey has thirty-five years of experience in the foodservice industry. Toomey has led senior management teams in foodservice distribution companies that range from $40 million to $3 billion in annualized sales. Toomey is presently serving on the Board of Directors of IFDA, Southwest Minnesota State University, Foodservice Risk Management, TOPCO, M.U.G. and IPAP. | |
